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5400rpm vs 7200rpm???

Yes, you will see a great inprovement in BF1942 with a faster HDD!

I just swapped HDDs around and now have a Raid 0 with 2x 7200RPM 80gb drives, and BF1942 loading times have dropped LOADS over just a single 7200rpm drive, so I imagine that you will definately notice the difference in BF1942.

You will also notice Windows loading quicker, and your computer just being generally faster 🙂


Confused
 
The hard drive is the slowest link in every computer. Hard drive technology has not kept up with the other advances in computer technology.

techfuzz
 
You will see a fairly large difference, especially if it is an older 5400rpm drive. The 7200rpm drives of today are faster than those of a few years back, even when only comparing drives w/ 2mb cache. You may want to even spend a bit extra and get a drive with an 8mb cache.

Brian
 
Everything will move faster because as said before, the HDD is the biggest bottle neck. If it weren't, our bottleneck would then be the cpu and memory, and since in most desktop cases it isn't, the HDD is the biggest bottleneck. I used to run with a 5400rpm drive, and let me tell you that once you upgrade, you won't want to go back.
 
Originally posted by: techfuzz
The hard drive is the slowest link in every computer. Hard drive technology has not kept up with the other advances in computer technology.

techfuzz
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Couldn't have said it better myself, so I won't try.
 
5400 sucks.

no reason to buy it.. price diff. is too small... only reason they make them is cause they can be a tad quieter and run a bit cooler (who cares really)
 
This is not alway true, for 120gb @ 5400 rpm, it performs like 80gb at 7200 rpm. 🙂 I rather have more space then less space for equal speed and for same cost. Also 180GB @ 5400 rpm = same as 120GB @ 7200 LOL.
 
Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
wait for the WD Raptor. 10K serial ATA with 8MB cache
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Better yet get a Adaptect U160 SCSI card and a 15K U160 18GB SCSI drive.

I recently bought a set for less than the MSRP of a 36GB Raptor.
 
Originally posted by: dexvx
Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
wait for the WD Raptor. 10K serial ATA with 8MB cache
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Better yet get a Adaptect U160 SCSI card and a 15K U160 18GB SCSI drive.

I recently bought a set for less than the MSRP of a 36GB Raptor.
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How and where? I want one.

 
Originally posted by: BG4533
Originally posted by: dexvx
Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
wait for the WD Raptor. 10K serial ATA with 8MB cache
Click to expand...

Better yet get a Adaptect U160 SCSI card and a 15K U160 18GB SCSI drive.

I recently bought a set for less than the MSRP of a 36GB Raptor.
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How and where? I want one.
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You'd be suprised on the kinds of deals popping around in the FS/T forum.
 
Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
wait for the WD Raptor. 10K serial ATA with 8MB cache
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Why wait? They're already in stock and for sale. Check out pricewatch, look for WD360GD. I have earmarked 2 for my next upgrade.

techfuzz
 
5400 drives are useful for reliability, low heat, and low noise. I wouldnt reccomend getting a 5400rpm for your primary drive, but they're useful if you just need some extra storage for your MP3's or whatever.
 
Capacity is a better sustained transfer rate performance indicator (The primary bottleneck in load times and non-server uses).

A drive with 40GB platters is twice as fast per rotation as a drive with 20GB platters.

Comparing a 40GB 5400RPM single-platter drive to a 40GB 7200RPM 2-platter drive will show the 5400RPM drive to be 50% faster. Think about it. Factor in that the reliability WILL be better.
 
Originally posted by: CZroe
Capacity is a better sustained transfer rate performance indicator (The primary bottleneck in load times and non-server uses).

A drive with 40GB platters is twice as fast per rotation as a drive with 20GB platters.

Comparing a 40GB 5400RPM single-platter drive to a 40GB 7200RPM 2-platter drive will show the 5400RPM drive to be 50% faster. Think about it. Factor in that the reliability WILL be better.
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But won't the access times will be better with a higher RPM drive?
 
Yes, that's why I specified STR. 🙂
Access times are more of an issue in, say... intensively reading random records in a large database (ie, this forum's server). Almost surely a server bottleneck, unless you have some SERIOUS file fragmentation.

The higher the STR, the better the performance for real-time large file writing (Digital video editing) and large file reading (Game levels, sounds, graphics, etc). If you don't have enough RAM ant the system has to load the sound effect for each footstep over and over and over from the page file then access time may make a difference (Similar situation to extreme file fragmentation) 😉
 
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